UNbelievable

Obama at the UN has been a silly showing. If I have to hear another "the time for action is now" and "this is our moment" line, I might throw up in my soup.

"But it is my deeply held belief that in the year 2009 — more than at any point in human history — the interests of nations and peoples are shared."

Really? Who shares Ahmadinejad's desire for a second, more successful, holocaust of the Jewish race? Raise your hands if you want to wipe Israel off the face of the map!

Who shares Putin's interest in controlling all resources in Georgia, the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania, The Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia etc etc?? (yet later on in the speech Obama mentions a "long-gone cold war". Looks like global warming is over and things are cooling down again...)

Who shares Chavez's desire to turn Latin America into a Nazi-style, ethnically uniform republic? Yes Bolivia- we've got you down. Honduras- you tried to fight? Bad, bad Honduras. We are revoking your visas.

"America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others."

Where? When? In the takeover of banks and industry? In demands Credit Suisse and Deutschebank follow Obama's laws? In the nationalization of the mortgage industry? Certainly not in Iraq after 2 UN Security Council resolutions and a coalition of more than 25 countries including UK, Spain, Canada, Japan, India, Australia...

Where is this unilateralism? Is it in the UN's handling of Rwandan genocide? Or the Sudanese genocide? Or the Burmese genocide? Or the Tibetan genocide? Where was the UN Human Right Council, replete with esteemed member nations like North Korea and Syria, when it came to the Iranian protests?

"...because the time has come for the world to move in a new direction. We must embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and our work must begin now."

Ugh. Shoot me. I could go on. But there is more manure in these speech, this sorry excuse for the POTUS' address to the world, than I care to mention.

More and more I am not only disappointed and angered by this community organizer neophyte, I am quite embarrassed.

And afraid.

Moore, Greed and a Genius

Michale Moore thinks he's touched on a new subject. His newest "movie", a take on "America's funniest home videos" and "Jackass" really hasn't departed much since "Roger and Me" debuted sometime in the 80's. I had to watch that film in High School English class. What it had to do with English I have no idea... but it's never too early to start liberal indoctrination.

So Michael Moore is on Jay Leno's program talking about the evils of capitalism. I guess he walked to the studio.

I don't know how much money Mr. Moore has made off of his films. Or how much he has spent to produce them. Or promote them. I guess the cameramen and crew all show up for free, unvetted (is that a word?) without need of resume, experience or skill. Mr. Moore must choose his editors, both video and sound, based on benevolence, generosity and zodiac signs.

See- the problem for Mr. Moore is that 1% of Americans have more wealth than 95% of the rest of America. And somehow that is...is what? wrong? unfair? unjust?

Yeah- I wish I were in that 1%. But so long as that 1% didn't steal it from me, didn't build their wealth on my back, didn't oppress me into poverty... what complaint do I have? Those 1%, odds are, provide a service, produce something better than anyone else. And I want it. Be it Berkshire-Hathaway shares, a Dell, a night at the Waldorf Astoria or an Ipod.

Mr. Moore contends that capitalism is "legalized greed". Greed does not give back. Capitalism does. It gives a product, a service, a good- something. How is this unfair or bad I don't know. Mr. Moore certainly makes left-wing documentaries better than anyone else... should he stop? Or maybe just start distributing his own wealth.

How Michael Moore uses the tools of capitalism to then bash capitalism is a little naive. And insulting. He should watch this video and learn:

Class

Breaking from politics- Beyonce, you're a real rock star in the highest sense. You did Hollywood proud. It was nice to see an act of redemption from within the entertainment community.

Kanye- maybe now you understand the South Park episode from last season. Yes, you were the only one who didn't "get it". And as a result, you are a gay fish.

Between Serena Williams threatening to kill the line judge at the US Open and Kanye's drunken stupidity at the VMAs... at least youth, especially black youth, got one good example in Beyonce this weekend.

What media outlets are saying

OK- maybe I'm a bad protester. I left the mall after about an hour to watch college football. Sorry. Hey- I used to do politics and rallies for a living and for REAL conservatives. I'm taking one day off.

So during a commercial break I decided to flip channels and see the "coverage". It's 1:30.

The networks have sports- NCAA Football and Tennis. Understandable.

MSNBC is covering Obama's rally in Minnesota. You know- that spontaneous, pre-screened, pre-selected, invitation only, planted questions "rally".

FOX has Glen Beck live.

CNN has "Your Money" where they talked about the 'turning point' of the American economy. That same economy that Obama stated he brought 'back from the brink'. I still don't understand that at all...

MSNBC.com "top Republican strategists and many party observers also worry about the impact that the most extreme protesters might have on the party's image, including those who carry swastika signs or obsess over the veracity of Obama's Hawaiian birth". I don't know what protest they went to... I didn't see one "birther". Just silly.

So there you go- don't cover it (like Van Jones) and then it doesn't exist. If a tree falls in the woods....

The day after 9/11

I walked down to the 9/12 project for the march on the mall.

And before you ask any questions, yes I also walked down to the anti-war, ANSWER protests of the past. (They stopped all of a sudden... is the war over? Is Cindy Sheehan's son back from the dead? Is Code Pink suddenly out of business? Hmmmm...)

I found some funny signs: "Hey Obama! If you like aliens send them to uranus". Crass, yes- but funny. A lot of "Socialist" posters, a lot of Ayn Rand (I had to text my friend and ask who John Gault was... sorry for the ignorance).

I didn't see violence, arrests or the black bloc breaking any windows.

My principle hope is that these protesters, thousands- perhaps hundreds of thousands- also turn out in election season. We need community organizing- but organizing for freedom, not government control of anything else.